Kanban, have you tried changing the time format settings in your forum profile? It's not that we don't believe you as you put it, but I don't get Moments ago unless it actually was moments ago. It's hard to fix something that is not broken for everyone

2. limit use of a title beginning with "Breaking" to the first 12 hours of posting.. and remove the word after that.

Ha ha! Yeah, I've been fooled in the past by months-old threads being bumped and thinking "an incident in that location / with that aircraft / airline again?!"...

I never understand the need for people to claim "breaking news" anyway... on BBC news I got so irritated with pop-up banners screaming headlines every five minutes on things I don't care about (and with no detail to back them up if I actually click them) that I added the pop-up script to my ad-blocker's ban list...

"As with most things related to aircraft design, it's all about the trade-offs and much more nuanced than A.net likes to make out."

Ok found the ambiguous place to set time zones... not intuitive because the result is unclear..Further if you log off your choice goes away.. that's BS... I personally do not intend to log in every time I want to check for updates or new stories.. so in my mind the problem still needs to be fixed.

One thing I really liked that seems to have disappeared (and may be mentioned elsewhere; apologies for laziness) was the ability to hover over APCs and airline codes (9W, AA, DL, etc) and get a tooltip type thing to appear with the expanded information (AA = American Airlines, SFO = San Francisco, etc).

You forgot "clunky", "slow", "error-prone", "next to impossible to maintain".

How many times did an update cause unforeseen issues due to the 'spaghetti code' of the site? People forget how often the site was unavailable while the programmers tried to fix errors caused by updates or changes.

KDTWflyer wrote:

I miss the old Airliners.net -- from the more user-friendly UI to the membership flags to the timestamps for posts. All of it. I wish we could get 2005-era Airliners.net back.

It's gone. It ain't coming back. It really is time to move on.

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana!There are 10 types of people in the World - those that understand binary and those that don't.

I'll just post a quick hello and welcome to you, Jeff. I suppose I'm one of those types owner folks don't much care for, as I was a looker through the fence on the edge of the active here for a really long time before I decided to go through the gate and actually walk around the grounds. And I'm rather sure I haven't done too many posts. Anyway, us old folks get like that. How old, you might want to ask. I remember Ed Sullivan on a black and white. My ole' man was stationed at Homestead during the Cuban business. That was when I first understood what life was all about. Just about when everyone thought ours was soon over. The world has changed a lot since then.

Welcome to Airliners.Net, Jeff.

But don't forget one thing, sir. Choppers are much more fun. And I ain't referring to them ones with two wheels.

Oh my goodness! I'd forgotten about that 747 up at the top of the landing page. I only just noticed that image up a bit while looking at some of the other posts. Yeah, it takes up a fair bit of room, but couldn't it be downsized a bit? Anyway, it seems that folks just keep trying to squeeze more and more and more out of these web pages and I don't get that, because I am an old fart that still remembers what my Trash80 looked like when I could get it to load anything. That 747 was pretty darn neat. How do you replace pretty darn neat in life? Why do you want to replace pretty darn neat? To make more room for what?

Oh well, ain't nobody gonna pay any attention to the ranting of an old man, right?

Still, that image of the older landing page just jumped right off the screen and right back into my memory of this site. Then I felt bad that I had forgotten that older style. That's the problem with this new human life of high speed living; we take to change too easily.

EDIT: Just looked and I should have realized what replaced the bird. That is a language way older than aviation.

Because it doesn't use the https protocol. As a result none of the information sent between your browser and the website is encrypted by Transport Layer Security, or its predecessor, Secure Sockets Layer. This means that neither the authenticity of the site nor the privacy and integrity of data exchanged is guaranteed.

When I was a boy the world was flat and now, some people still strive to keep it that way.

Until such time as the signature issue is fixed (telling people to add line breaks or improving the software, either or) can the ads on the side be removed/reduced? It's making really good threads unreadable.

Until such time as the signature issue is fixed (telling people to add line breaks or improving the software, either or) can the ads on the side be removed/reduced? It's making really good threads unreadable.

It's not an issue on the mobile site (and the insanely infuriating spam pop-ups seem not to be happening in the forums), so I tend to do most of my forum reading on the mobile site as a result.

One thing I do when I run into the long signature issue when I'm on my PC is to write a very friendly and polite post pointing out the issue to the user and asking if they can adjust their signature. Have had very positive responses to that.

V/F

"It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." - Bahá'u'lláh

Because it doesn't use the https protocol. As a result none of the information sent between your browser and the website is encrypted by Transport Layer Security, or its predecessor, Secure Sockets Layer. This means that neither the authenticity of the site nor the privacy and integrity of data exchanged is guaranteed.

you know ... I hadn't noticed that, but seriously - should be supporting https ... the browsers are now demanding it, and basically the whole rest of the internet is, too ...

The site does not need to be secure, however the payment solution must be, and that is why sites use external debit sites like Paypal, Dibs etc.

Given that the site owners have not indicated a desire for the site to be secure the following forum rule appears to be unreasonable:

You are responsible for the security of your password. Excuses for unauthorized posts such as "someone has discovered my password" or "I left my PC with it still logged on to a.net and someone used it" will not be accepted.

A user cannot be responsible for the security of a passwords transmitted over an insecure connection unless the user does not actually contribute to the discussions.

I don't understand why the issue has not been addressed. Surely the forum owners are not so poor that they can't afford a htpps certificate.

When I was a boy the world was flat and now, some people still strive to keep it that way.

Starting to get the "you won a free iPhone" takeover ads now requiring window closure. You guys need to be more careful who is serving your ads, as it can't be in your best financial interest of your company to spam customers with out redirects away from your sites.

Ditto

If you see this again could you please get a screenshot of the offending ad and send it to support@airliners.net so we can have it removed?

Thanks

Paul

This free iphone is still going strong on my mobile and directing me away from airliners. I don't get spam like this anywhere else when I search on my iphone.

Please do me a favor: go to photo no #4496353 (Boeing 747-123 SF) where I managed to load four identical comments. Could you erase three of them? I tried using the cancel button, I tried to erase the text,to no avail. I am sorry. How is it done by the way?

I'd like to see the list of websites who had linked your photo on it back on again in the photo corner, I know most of the links were search engines but I found it quite interesting to see once in a while if anyone had linked your photo elsewhere.

I am new here. But, want to add a suggestion here. I am notching that airliners.net and airliners.net/forum both slow. They take lots of time to load completely. If you want to improve UX then you should improve site loading speed.

This thread that started out as an announcement thread with all the associated comments has morphed into a quasi site issue thread duplicating the existing site problem forum. Site problems need to be in one location only. suggest closing this thread to prevent further misuse.

I was hoping the aircraft data section would be brought up to date. I enjoy referring to it and going over the different characteristics of various models but this section is several years, at least behind times.